Košice Artist in Residence
We would like to warmly invite you to exhibition and exhibition opening of K.A.I.R. resident Juka Araikawa. Juka Araikawa is a Japanese artist who has been living and working in Košice since March 2013. She has been influenced mainly by the specific local environment living at one of Košice suburbs and working in a former […]
Pecha Kucha Night will be held on the 9th of May from 20:20 at Pokhoi/Staré Kasíno, Hlavná 20. The evening will be dedicated to those who were at residency through K.A.I.R. or Creative Industry Toolkit programme. Each author has 20 pictures and for each picture has 20 seconds. PechaKucha Night was devised in 2003 in Tokio by […]
The work of Jaroslav Kysa comprises objects, installations, photography and video, and all of the areas are characteristic of the author’s typical use of the appropriation and aesthetic perception not only of found common objects and commodities, but also of cuts-outs from everyday real events, both lively and banal. Jaroslav Kysa relativises the functionality of […]
Julia Mensch (ARG) was a K.A.I.R. resident in Košice in summer 2012. Salashi is an exhibition presenting outcomes of her artistic investigation in progress into the history of Communism, which deals with the private and political life of her grandparents, Rafael and Isabel. Book Salashi documenting her research will be launched during the exhibition. The […]
Kristina Forbat (GER) has just arrived to Košice and she is full of energy and enthusiasm to document the city, its inhabitants and the events happening here. Besides this she will follow a specific topic dealing with a community of Carpathian Germans who came to Slovakia between the 12th and the 15th century. She would be also […]
Kristina Forbat, the Slovakian born city writer for Košice 2013 came from Hamburg, Germany, in April 2013 to stay for 5 months in Košice. Košice was once her birthplace. With her parents and her older sister she immigrated as a little girl to West Germany where she grew up. Kristina studied Political Sciences, Communication Studies […]